Thank you for being so patient. You‘ve been waiting for a long time. Now it‘s done. I‘ve build the new GIMP 2.8.4 and it‘s ready for downloading.

But it‘s more than just waiting. I‘ve patched a lot of things and I‘ve tried to address one of the most controversially discussed issues: the new „Save / Export“ behavior. And, this build will bring you most of the ,traditional‘ workflow back, while giving you, IMO, the best of both worlds.

This build uses a more smart way of the "save / export" function than it was introduced in GIMP 2.8.

Now:

1) non-XCF images with 1 layer:

- can be saved via "File - Save" as in GIMP 2.6

- are marked "clean" after saving, so no more dialogs about unsaved changes

2) non-XCF images with 2 or more layers:

- nothing has been changed. Works as in 'plain' GIMP 2.8

3) XCF images and newly created images:

- nothing has been changed. Works as in 'plain' GIMP 2.8

"Save as / Export / Export to / Overwrite" work as in 'plain' GIMP 2.8

The default is unchecked, which will give you the above mentioned behavior, so that you can save non-XCF images.

If you want to use the new GIMP 2.8 behavior to only save in XCF, just mark this option checked.

Please give me some feedback about this changed behavior. Do you like it?

Does it fit your needs?

Well, there are more changes and improvements too: UFRaw 0.19.1, opening Postscript files now works, the help system will be configured automatically if you install the User manual packages from the download page, COMMAND + H now hides GIMP as it does with every other native MAc application.

And some notes for developers:

This build does not use the Carbon framework at all! All code has been ported to the Cocoa framework. And even more. Nearly every OS X related function now uses the NS classes and is coded in objective-C. Even GTK+ and all other libraries and tools have been ported :-)

Finally, if you like the GIMP on OS X packages and all my efforts to give you the best open source image editing and manipulating software right on your Mac and to improve it even more, please consider to support this project and make some donation.